Workshop PrinciplesAcceptance

Teachers communicate acceptance by:

• Showing interest not only in how students perform in class but also in their extracurricular activities.• Calling students by their preferred names, and making eye contact, • Planning varied activities that address different learning styles and that capitalize on individual differences, encouraging even the unassertive students to participate in discussions.

ALL of these help students feel like they matter!

Workshop PrinciplesSafety and Order

Students need to feel safe from physical harm in order to be receptive to learning.

Students need to feel a sense of emotional safety i.e., that they are safe from emotional abuse.

Workshop PrinciplesOpportunity

• Children need time to read and write in order to become successful readers and writers.

Volume Reading?

What does the Research Say?

The amount of reading that students do in and out of school was positively related to their reading achievement. (Foertsch, 1992)

• Volume reading was reliably correlated with reading comprehension performance in both disabled and normally achieving readers. (Chang, 1993).

• NAEP studies suggest that volume may be critically important in developing thoughtful literacy proficiencies.

Volume Writing?

What are some common beliefs?

• People learn to write by writing; getting better at writing requires doing it – a lot.

• The more people write, the easier it gets and the more they are motivated to do it.

• Writers who write a lot learn more abut the process because they have had more experience inside it.

• Teachers should support students in the development of writing lives, habits, and preferences for life outside school.

Workshop PrinciplesOpportunity

Children MUST have access to a large variety of quality reading materials for reading and writing.

Workshop PrinciplesOpportunity

Children must be a part of a classroom that promotes social interactions.